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Chicago Shootings

July 13, 2017

Willie Fry was sleeping in his Lawndale home early Thursday when he heard five to six gunshots. He didn’t immediately go outside, but his neighbors later told him the man who had been wounded by the gunshots ran into a random home in the 3100 block of West Lexington Street. “We don’t know who he…

July 11, 2017

Three people were killed and eight were wounded, including in an attack downtown, in city shootings from Monday to Tuesday morning, police said. In the most recent homicide, a 50-year-old man was shot when he was standing in the parking lot of a gas station in the Marynook neighborhood, and an offender pushed him into…

July 10, 2017

(Chicago Tribune) Forty one people in Chicago were wounded and three were killed in a weekend that saw several multi victim shootings, an attack on a popular South Side beach and an officer involved shooting that fatally wounded a suspect who first shot at police. Year to date, 2016 recorded 2,113 shootings compared with 1,924…

July 9, 2017

(Chicago Tribune) One man was fatally shot during an argument on the South Side, and at least 15 others were wounded in separate attacks from Saturday morning to early Sunday. An argument late Saturday in the Englewood neighborhood left one man dead when it escalated to a shooting. Just before 11:20 p.m., a 27-year-old man…

July 9, 2017

(WLS) At least seven people were injured, including four Chicago police officers, after a shooting and crash on the West Side Saturday night. Police said three men were driving in the 4200-block of West Roosevelt Road in the North Lawndale neighborhood when another car pulled up and someone inside started shooting at the men at…

July 8, 2017

(Chicago Tribune) After a 15-year-old boy was grazed in the head in a shooting early Saturday, a man stood near the ambulance and suggested officials throw holy water on the Roseland block. “This block has death on it,” he said. “They need to put holy water on it.” The 15-year-old boy had been walking about…

July 8, 2017

(WLS) Neighbors in the Back of the Yard neighborhood woke up Saturday morning after the first campout to curb gun violence in the city. Several other events are planned in areas hardest hit by crime. The campout kicked off a summer-long program to curb violence in some of Chicago’s most dangerous neighborhoods. At about 5…

July 7, 2017

(SUN TIMES MEDIA WIRE) – Three people were killed and eight wounded in separate shootings on Thursday across Chicago, mostly on the South and West sides. Following a historically violent Fourth of July holiday weekend that ended with more than 100 people shot, the city is approaching 1,900 gunshot victims on the year, according to…

July 5, 2017

Thirteen people were killed and 87 others were wounded in shootings across Chicagoin a bloody Fourth of July weekend between Friday afternoon and Wednesday morning. Last year’s Independence Day weekend, which was one day shorter than this year’s, ended with 66 people shot, four of them fatally — a total that actually stoked cautious optimism…

July 4, 2017

At least six people were wounded in shootings on the South and West sides on Monday, police said. The attacks Monday bring to 57 the number of people shot during the extended holiday weekend. Seven of those shot have died, according to data compiled by the Tribune. In the most recent shooting, a 60-year-old man…

July 3, 2017

(WLS) The Fourth of July weekend in Chicago had violent start with six people dead and 46 hurt. Among the injured was the son of a Cook County judge. Duriel Lyke is recovering at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn and is lucky to be alive after the 28-year-old man was shot in the…

July 3, 2017

One person was killed and at least 10 others were wounded in Chicago shootings from Sunday afternoon to Monday morning, police said. A 39-year-old man was fatally shot in the head in the Illinois Medical District neighborhood about 11:35 p.m. Sunday and pronounced dead on the scene, police said. Police responded to a call of…

July 3, 2017

(WLS) A person was shot and killed by Chicago police in the Lawndale neighborhood Saturday night and two weapons, including an AK-47, were recovered, police said. Two Chicago police officers responded to a call of shots fired in the 2200-block of South Kostner Avenue at about 10:45 police said. When they arrived, officers saw someone…

July 3, 2017

At least 49 people were shot across Chicago, four of them fatally, by Sunday night of the Fourth of July weekend. Last year’s Independence Day weekend ended with 66 people shot — a total that actually stoked cautious optimism with the lowest death toll for the July 4 weekend in nearly a decade. On Saturday,…

July 1, 2017

Nine people, including five teens, were wounded in separate attacks from Thursday to early Friday on the city’s West and South sides. Two people were critically injured just before 3:40 a.m. Friday in the Englewood neighborhood near a memorial for a 16-year-old boy who was fatally shot earlier this month on the same block, police…

June 29, 2017

Four people were killed and at least seven others, including a 14-year-old girl, were wounded in shootings Wednesday across the city’s South and West sides. Two women, ages 32 and 41, were killed in a Washington Park neighborhood shooting about 10:30 p.m. on the South Side. They were driving north in the 5300 block of…

June 29, 2017

(WGN) Two women were killed in a drive-by shooting in the Washington Park neighborhood overnight. It happened near 53rd and Wabash around 10:30 last night. Police say the women were in a car, driving north, when someone in another car opened fire on them. Their names haven’t been released yet. Police say they were documented…

June 28, 2017

Three men were killed and at least 14 other people were wounded in shootings Tuesday across Chicago, including five people shot in a single West Side attack. The day’s latest homicide happened at 6:22 p.m. in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side. Officers responded to a call of a person shot in the 8900…

June 28, 2017

(WLS) Five people were shot in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood Tuesday night, police said. Police said three women and two men were shot after an unknown man approached their group in the 200-block of South Lotus Avenue and opened fire around 9 p.m. The man then fled. A 39-year-old woman was wounded in the leg and…

June 27, 2017

A 13 year old boy was among five people killed and nine others wounded in shootings in Chicago between Monday and Tuesday mornings, according to police. Deshawn Martin was shot in the 1000 block of West 103rd Place in the Washington Heights neighborhood about 7:35 p.m. He suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and…